Becoming aware of when we are age-regressing (defending against feeling unfinished emotional pain from the past) is a process that can be visually and verbally explored through the art journaling
process. Most of us experience age-regression on an almost continuous basis - until we have processed a considerable amount of past pain.

All unfinished business from the past holds our younger selves frozen in time. In order to resist traumatic experiences, the child freezes the body by tightening the muscles and holding the
breath. After much repetition, our patterns of contraction become an automatic response that can carry on for decades until they are seen, understood, interrupted, and changed...